10 years at B4 after starting straight out of college. Been looking outside lately and curious on perspectives of big 4 vs smaller but still established firms? Still large companies but not as huge as B4 e.g. FTI, Kearny. Wondering specifically on bureaucracy and fiefdoms that are present

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You must not be at EY since “total comp” = base here

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Are you going to make ppmd in the next 5 or so years? Do you want to live the ppmd lifestyle? If not, then leave consulting. I say this as someone who was at Deloitte for 7 yrs out of college and left as a manager when there was no longer a clear path to ppmd and pay was better elsewhere

I have a clear (for now, B4 never a certainty) path to PPMD here in 3/4 years. I’m a second year SM.

With that said, being a SM has exposed me to the layers of bureaucracy and pain of being a B4 PPMD. I’m largely wondering if I can move somewhere smaller and continue what I do.

Current comp is around 300 all in, this year expect it to be closer to 320+. I would be okay going somewhere where PPMD lets me hit 450-500 as I am planning on using consulting pay for FIRE purposes, but do not want to hate my life while doing so and B4 PPMD seems to be the wrong option for me

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